Little Book of Big Ideas: Economics

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• ISBN13: 9781556526664
• ISBN10: 1556526660
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2007-05-28
• Publisher: Chicago Review Press

Summary

The Little Book of Big Ideas: Economics is a fascinating journey through the greatest minds of economic thought. Exploring such concepts as macro-and microeconomics, competition, and monopoly, as well as the contributions of great names such as Mill, Keynes, Marx, and Krugman, the Little Book of Big Ideas: Economics gives extraordinary insight into the development of this internationally significant and all-pervasive modern science. Review the great words of preclassical economists, trace revolutions in economic thought and action, and consider the founders of the great schools of thought. All the key facts and figures are presented here, expertly packed into a pocket full of knowledge. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Mathew Forstater is an associate professor of economics and black studies and director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Pre-Classical Economics
Aristotle	p. 8
St. Thomas Aquinas	p. 10
Ibn Kaldhun	p. 12
Thomas Mun	p. 14
John Locke	p. 16
Economics and the economy	p. 18
David Hume	p. 20
Classical Economics
William Petty	p. 22
Richard Cantillon	p. 24
Francois Quesnay	p. 16
Adam Smith	p. 28
Money and finance	p. 30
Thomas Malthus	p. 32
David Ricardo	p. 34
John Stuart Mill	p. 36
Karl Marx	p. 38
Neoclassical Economics
Competition	p. 40
Piero Sraffa	p. 42
Alfred Marshall	p. 44
W. Stanley Jevons	p. 46
Leon Walrus	p. 48
Carl Menger	p. 50
Say's Law	p. 52
Knut Wicksell	p. 54
Irving Fisher	p. 56
John Hicks	p. 58
Paul Samuelson	p. 60
Milton Friedman	p. 62
Friedrich Hayek	p. 64
Robert Mundell	p. 66
Keynesian Economics
Growth Theory	p. 68
John Maynard Keynes	p. 70
Don Patinkin	p. 72
Joan Robinson	p. 74
Joseph E. Stiglitz	p. 76
Uncertainty and Information	p. 78
Abba Lerner	p. 80
Nicholas Kaldor	p. 82
James Buchanen	p. 84
Robert Eisner	p. 86
Alan Greenspan	p. 88
Edmund Phelps	p. 90
Paul Krugman	p. 92
Historical and Institutional Economics
Consumer Behavior	p. 94
Gustav von Schmoller	p. 96
Georg Friedrich Kapp	p. 98
Robert L. Heilbroner	p. 100
Peter Kropotkin	p. 102
Thoirstein Veblen	p. 104
Business Cycle Theory	p. 106
Karl Wilhelm Kapp	p. 108
John Kenneth Galbraith	p. 110
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	p. 112
Development Economics
Simon Kuznets	p. 114
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen	p. 116
Economic Development	p. 118
Joseph Schumpeter	p. 120
Wassily Leontief	p. 122
Amartya Sen	p. 124
Glossary	p. 126
Index	p. 128
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